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Chapter 730: Island
🕑 Added 2023-10-13 08:45:12 +0000 UTCTransformers Begin : Table of Content/Chapter List
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"In the afternoon, I took you for a stroll on the island, considering it as a way to relax. We've already had a modest dinner. Would you like to take a real tour of the island with me?" Sun Cheng slightly emphasized the word 'real,' showing his appreciation for the woman named Lin Meng before him.
Rare are those who possess both talent and beauty, and Lin Meng was one in a million.
At the dawn of life, heaven's fairness was never guaranteed. Take humans, for example; there are the beautiful and the plain, the tall and the short, the slim and the heavy. But heaven's fairness lies in the societal melting pot, where innate flaws often serve as a driving force for advancement.
Many exceptionally beautiful women, from a young age, lack suitors, making it challenging not to be influenced and follow the path of change due to premature experiences or the influence of untrustworthy men.
Sun Cheng's observation wasn't biased against beautiful women, but rather a conclusion drawn by European and American sociologists and human behavior experts, who studied years of enrollment data from various universities.
According to the surveys in some European and American countries, women with beauty scores below 60 tend to spend an average of 8.37 hours more on their studies each week compared to those with scores above 80.
A 2014 report from Yale University revealed that beauty had a 17.2 impact on scientific research.
Therefore, women like Lin Meng, who combined beauty, talent, and capability, were relatively rare.
Although Sun Cheng's interest in women was nowhere near as high as his interest in research, having a confidant who possessed both talent and beauty was a pleasing sight.
Lin Meng gazed at him for a moment and nodded with a slight smile. "Boss, it seems like I've already boarded this ship, and getting off won't be so easy, right?"
Sun Cheng's lips curved slightly, and though he didn't provide a verbal response, he tacitly acknowledged the astute woman's speculation.
Over the past month, Lin Meng had uncovered many of his secrets, making it challenging for her to disembark.
Lin Meng shot a disdainful glance at this unscrupulous boss, who didn't bother hiding his malicious intent, then set down her teacup and stood up. "Since I have no choice, I can only go along with it."
"Moreover, I'm very interested in how you, Boss, managed to achieve all this in just a year. Some things can't be accomplished solely with technical support."
"I'm curious!" She didn't attempt to hide her curiosity from Sun Cheng. "I've investigated your performance over the past year and even visited your alma mater."
Sun Cheng remained calm and unruffled, not harboring negative emotions due to Lin Meng's private investigation.
Over the past year, especially in the latter half of the previous year, with Cybertron Technology Group making significant strides, he had noticed a growing amount of attention in his name on the internet, as well as targeted online searches and data trades concerning him in the dark web.
Not long ago, during the week he spent back in Subei Hometown, Revenge had also detected personnel guarding Ye Qi's parents around his hometown.
In the process of moving forward, people invariably gain and lose something, and he had long grown accustomed to it.
"Then let's go!" He picked up the smartphone transformed by Xiao Wu and said to the device, "Have Safeguard dispatch an autonomous patrol car!"
After giving the order, Sun Cheng pocketed Xiao Wu and headed out of the room, with Lin Meng following him. They exited the luxurious lounge within the island's high-tech subbase, walking along a corridor just after a short distance.
Sun Cheng and Lin Meng spotted a vehicle resembling an open-top tourist bus, which was slowly approaching them without anyone at the helm. The vehicle was under the control of a recently installed pseudo-Artificial Intelligence within the base. While it could only operate within the base's confines, it had no security issues.
Sun Cheng took a seat in the vehicle, and in front of the two front seats was a long, slender display screen that showed several different-sized maps.
"Come aboard!" Lin Meng nodded enthusiastically and took her place in the passenger seat.
"Safeguard, let the patrol car take us for a spin in this subbase," Sun Cheng ordered.
Though there was no verbal response, the intelligent patrol car they were sitting in began moving, proceeding at a slow pace of about ten kilometers per hour.
As they embarked on their tour, Sun Cheng explained the layout of the base on the island to Lin Meng. With the acquisition of the Hope-class experimental spaceship and the small spaceship obtained from the Hunter Civilization, which had been used to transport Iron Blood soldiers, he had decided not to store them in the Spherical Space but to keep them on Earth. This made it convenient for travel between Xia Country and Base Three, thousands of miles away.
As his most valued future assistant, Sun Cheng was indeed contemplating granting her more authority, such as allowing her to use the spaceship for emergencies, traveling between Xia Country and Base Three.
The base on Nubra Island had taken over and modified the island's original drainage system for the sake of concealment. Therefore, many of the base's passages were constructed within circular underground tunnels that served dual purposes.
While passing through a section covered in lush moss and a damp, musty odor, Lin Meng covered her nose and mouth.
Sun Cheng didn't seem to mind, but when the patrol car reached an intersection ahead, he suddenly spoke, "Turn left!"
From there, the patrol car never returned to the area they had just passed; instead, it continued straight and brought Lin Meng to her resting place.
This was because only Sun Cheng knew that after the completion of the subbase on Nubra Island, it had been assigned two primary tasks.
The first task was to manufacture various mechanical devices and components, most of which would eventually be shipped back to Xia Country for trade with the Xia Country Government. A small portion would be stored in the Spherical Space and transported to the Transformers Universe to fill their production gaps.
In addition to this, the island had also embarked on a new technological experiment at Sun Cheng's request—genetic gene technology reconstruction.
Nubra Island had previously been planned as a dinosaur park by the International Genetic Technology Corporation, a United States corporation that possessed highly unscientific but extremely advanced genetic technology. Surprisingly, they could extract dinosaur DNA from a mosquito trapped in amber that had coincidentally fed on dinosaur blood millions of years ago and then reverse-engineer the complete genetic sequence.
During his initial visit to Nubra Island, Sun Cheng had copied the server of the island's International Genetic Technology Corporation. However, since Nubra Island wasn't their primary technical center, the data stored on the island's server, although containing valuable information, was limited.
Upon returning to the Real World this time, he had brought back a pseudo-Artificial Intelligence produced by Base Two in the Transformers Universe. Currently, this pseudo-Artificial Intelligence had computing power far surpassing all pseudo-AIs on Earth. Besides managing all of the island's facilities on a daily basis, it dedicated most of its computing power to Sun Cheng's work on refining the data obtained from the International Genetic Technology Corporation's server and reconstructing genetic gene technology.
The laboratory they were approaching, which Sun Cheng had deliberately avoided earlier and turned right to reach, was operating under the management of this Artificial Intelligence. There, they were using certain animals to verify the genetic gene technology.
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